Drive-By Truckers – The Righteous Path (Guitar Acoustic)

           Am                          C
I've got a brand new car that drinks a bunch of gas

      Fmaj7                          C/E
Got a house in a neighborhood that's fading fast

      Am                       C
Got a dog and a cat that don't fight too much

      Fmaj7                   C/E
Got a few hundred channels to keep me in touch

      Am                       C
Got a beautiful wife and three tow-headed kids

  Fmaj7                     C/E
A couple of big secrets I'd kill to keep hid

  Am                   C
I don't know God but I fear his wrath

    Fmaj7                         C/E
I'm trying to stay focused on the righteous path

           Am                      C
I've got a couple of opinions that I hold dear

      Fmaj7                   C/E
Got a whole lot of debt and a whole lot of fear

       Am                                C
Got an itch that needs scratching but it feels alright

        Fmaj7                  C/E
Got the need to blow it out on Saturday night

      Am                          C
Got a grill in the backyard and a case of beers

      Fmaj7                    C/E
Got a boat that ain't seen the water in years

     Am                      C
More bills than money, I can do the math

    Fmaj7                         C/E
I'm trying to keep focused on the righteous path

    Fm                          Gm
I'm trying to keep focused as I drive down the road

       Am*                            G*
On the ditches and the curves and the heavy load

      Fm                                Gm
Ain't bitching 'bout things that aren't in my grasp

     Am*                          G*
Just trying to hold steady on the righteous path

             Am                        C
There's this friend of mine I've known all my life

          Fmaj7                      C/E
Who can't get it right no matter how hard he tries

    Am                    C
Got kids he don't see and several ex-wives

      Fmaj7                       C/E
And a list of bad decisions 'bout eight miles wide

Am                           C
Trouble with the law and the IRS

    Fmaj7                          C/E
And where he'll get the money's anybody's guess

       Am                      C
He's a long way off but if you was to ask

     Fmaj7                          C/E
He'd say "I'm trying to stay on the righteous path"

    Fm                           Gm
I'm trying to keep focused as we drive down the road

     Am*                            G*
Like back in High School before the world turned cold

        Fm                      Gm
Now the brakes are thin and the curves are fast

      Am*                          G*
We're trying to hold steady on the righteous path

      F       Em
We're hanging out

          G*      Am*
And we're hanging on

      F                  Em
We're trying the best we can

           G*      Am*
to keep on keeping on

       F         Em
We got messed up minds

          G*        Am*
For these messed up times

           F         Em
And it's a thin thin line

           G*       Am   Fm Em Fm Em Fm Em
separating his from mine

Fm                           Gm
Trying to hold steady on the righteous path

Am*                         G*
Eighty miles an hour with a worn out map

      Fm                            Gm
Don't worry about things that ain't in my grasp

Am*                          G*
Trying to hold steady on the righteous path